Weekend Gamer: Xbox VR
Without warning, Meta Quest 3S Xbox Edition was suddenly available for sale today (June 24, 2025). This is an Xbox Edition of the standalone virtual reality headset Meta Quest 3S, which came out last October.
Technology
Lew Apollo at Midway Saloon, St Paul (June 19, 2025)
Midway Saloon Set Time 7:00pm Robert Robinson 8:00pm The Rondo Ramblers 9:00pm Dylan Wylde 10:00pm...
TekTok: Portable Air Conditioner
It’s my first time experiencing summer in Florida, and I can tell you that I am not used to this weather. It gets really hot here, regularly in the mid-90s. June is the worst so far.
Weekend Gamer: Summer of Gaming 2025
As the resident Weekend Gamer, I am obligated to mention the craziness of this week in Summer Gaming! Traditionally, since most kids are outside during the summer, game sales are poor… so the gaming industry would announce games in the summer for games to be on sale this holiday or year end.
TV: Killers and Murderers
TV: Killers and Murderers - Predator: Killer of Killers, Murderbot
Weekend Gamer: Update (May 2025)
As for the gaming, I finally got around to putting together my Galaga Arcade1Up. I’ve had this thing in the original box for more than a year, because I knew eventually, I had to move to Jacksonville, and it was just easier to leave things in its compact state. When I put it together, I soon realized I did not bring my Pac-Man and Street Fighter II console controllers… so instead of putting the Galaga side art, I prefer the bright yellowness of the Pac-Man side.
Spectra 6
The next generation of e-ink is here, and it is called Spectra 6.
The original Spectra had only three pigments (red, black, white), but over the years, they evolved to Spectra 6, featuring six colors: red, yellow, blue, white, black, and green… and through those combinations can produce about 60,000 colors.
The age of the $80 video games
The age of the $80 video games is here. It was first announced by Nintendo with its pricing for Mario Kart World.
Apocalypse Wow
Apocalypse Wow - The Eternaut and The Last of Us: Season 2
Weekend Gamer: Oblivion Remastered Deluxe
This is just an update on the new The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered game that was released last week (April 22, 2025). The Remastered is doing really well, as the developer Bethesda announced that they have over 4 million players playing the game.
Weekend Gamer: Oblivion Remastered
Bethesda and Xbox shadow dropped the new The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered yesterday (April 22, 2025). Prior to the release, there were a few leaks, showcasing the new Oblivion vs the original from 2006.
Weekend Gamer: The Last of Us Part II
With the new season of The Last of Us airing on HBO a few weeks ago, I’ve decided to finally get around to playing The Last of Us Part II video game, thanks to the game finally being available on PC (release date Apr 3, 2025).
TP-Link Portable Wi-Fi Router
The other funny thing that happened to me was that the cleaners took my Straight Talk Home Internet (Tracfone) and threw it in their landfill. I didn’t think I would get it back, so I called Tracfone to deactivate the device and cancel my internet service. After talking to the cleaners, they kept an eye out for it and found the internet modem and returned it back to me.
Crime Time: Harry Bosch, Renee Ballard, and Levon Cade
Crime Time: Harry Bosch, Renee Ballard, and Levon Cade - Bosch Legacy: The Final Season
and A Working Man
Weekend Gamer: Nintendo Switch 2
Everybody knew the Nintendo Switch 2 was coming… after all, it’s been eight years since the original Switch launched and in the last few years, the original Switch just could not play any modern games. Technically those games do run, but at ‘potato speed’ as the kids call it. I bought a few games that just sucked on the Switch that I gave up on that system when I got the Steam Deck (which was then replaced by the ROG Ally).
Weekend Gamer: Play Anywhere
I’ve been a big fan of Xbox Play Anywhere (XPA) program for a few years now, and was happy to hear from the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in California, that Xbox announced over 1,000 titles (they’re also counting the future titles South of Midnight and Doom: The Dark Ages) are now Xbox Play Anywhere.
Weekend Gamer: Xbox Keenan
The much-rumored Xbox Handheld, codename Keenan, is coming to us closer than you think (I first mentioned this in Nov 2024)! The details are exclusively from a report via Windows Central. It’s set to be released this year (probably before Christmas to make for the maximum sale) and it is as much as I suspected: MicroSoft is just going to get a manufacturer to make their handheld. I think they are going to partner with Asus, who make the ROG Ally (my favorite handheld), to redesign an Xbox-branded ROG Ally. There will be some key difference, probably the branding and also that Xbox Button that you find on all their controller. The Xbox button would bring up a hotbar – similar to what you get when you’re playing on an Xbox Series X or S.
Crime Time: Born Again and Persuader
Crime Time: Born Again and Persuader - Daredevil: Born Again and Reacher: Season 3
PlayStation: A year of L’s
I honestly don’t know why there are so many PlayStation fans, this company has been making a series of horrible mistakes and failures.
Valentine Horror
You know, with Valentine’s Day coming up on February 14, you would think the movie studios would be releasing romantic comedy films… but this year: it’s a hard no. Instead you’re seeing an action film called Love Hurts, Flight Risk, and Den of Thieves 2… and plenty of horror movies: Heart Eyes (a film about a serial killer on Valentine’s Day), The Monkey (a Stephen King horror story about a cursed monkey toy), Companion, Nosferatu, and Wolf Man… I think it’s cool, as a horror movie fans (after all I love the fact that for the months of October to December, we’re seeing a constant holiday horrors).
28 Hours Later
Guys, you know I am a massive Alex Garland fan, and you know I love Danny Boyle. The two have teamed up once again to produce the upcoming 28 Years Later, the two re-united since the original 28 Days Later.
Octosquid
When Animals Attack: Squid, Squid Game, Jei-Ryan, Ruth Goller
Weekend Gamer: Pillars of Eternity
Back in late October, I started re-playing the original Pillars of Eternity with the intention of beating it. I did technically “rolled credits”, but it wasn’t an ending that I wanted. So I restarted the game to beat it properly, because I was going to skip over Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Originally excited for the game, but after seeing all the negative reviews, I’ve decided to not play it at all.
The Chinese Connection
I think by now you’ve all heard that Elon Musk is a liar and cheater. Last year, Musk boasts that he’s ranked top 20 players worldwide on Diablo IV, and that was already suspicious. I personally didn’t believe it, but I didn’t really care or questioned it because, I had stopped playing the game (because it sucks).
I fell in love with the Video Nasty
Nasty by The Damned Catch the tide at the flood My TV screen is seeking...
The Kids Are Alright
Sometimes, I feel I gotta get away Bells chime, I know I gotta get away...
Weekend Gamer: CES 2025
Weekend Gamer here. With CES (Consumer Electronics Show) happening right now in Las Vegas, we are getting a lot of tech news, like the Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5090 Graphics Cards which will cost nearly $2,000! Officially the start date is January 7, but the media preview kickoff started January 6.
Guns, gangs, and girls
Guns, gangs, and girls - Absolution (2024) and Dirty Angels
Weekend Gamer: Go! Go! Zo!
With CES (Consumer Electronics Show) coming up on January 7, I am hearing all these rumors about what to expect in the popular computer handheld market: Lenovo Legion Go S (two variants), Legion Go 2, Atari Gamestation Go, Zotac Zone 2. If true (or false), I will update this article with additional details after January 7.
Justice is Blind
Do you ever wonder why there are so many Zatoichi films (26 in total)? That’s because it was really meant to be a serial for television, but back in the early sixties, televisions weren’t as common. By the mid-seventies, almost every home in Japan had a television, so Zatoichi continues his adventures in a television show. Between 1974 and 1979, a total of 100 episodes of Zatoichi were produced.